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Writing on the relationship between war and cinema has largely been dominated by an emphasis on optics and weaponised vision. However, as this analysis of the Hollywood war film will show, a wider sensory field is powerfully evoked in this genre. Contouring war cinema as representing a somatic experience of space, the study applies a term recently developed by Derek Gregory within the theoretical framework of Critical Geography. What he calls "corpography" implies a constant re-mapping of landscape through the soldier's body. These assumptions can be used as a connection between already established theories of cartographic film narration and ideas of (neo)phenomenological film experience, as they also entail the involvement of the spectator's body in sensuously grasping what is staged as a mediated experience of war. While cinematic codes of war have long been oriented almost exclusively to the visual, the notion of corpography can help to reframe the concept of film genre in terms of expressive movement patterns and genre memory, avoiding reverting to the usual taxonomies of generic texts.

War films. --- Motion pictures --- Anti-war films --- War film. --- cinematic space. --- genre theory. --- poetics of affect.

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This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages between the US, Europe, and Asia at the height of the Cold War. From the popularity of CIA-sponsored espionage films in Hong Kong and South Korea to the enduring Cold War rhetoric of brotherly relations in contemporary Sino-Indian co-production, cinema has always been a focal point of the cultural Cold War in Asia. Historically, both the United States and the Soviet Union viewed cinema as a powerful weapon in the battle to win hearts and minds-not just in Europe, but also in Asia. The Cold War in Asia was, properly speaking, a hot war, with proxy military confrontations between the United States, on one side, and the Soviet Union and China on the other. Amid this political and military turbulence, cataclysmic shifts occurred in the culture and history of Asian cinemas as well as in the latitude of US cultural diplomacy in Asia. The collection of essays in this volume sheds light on the often-forgotten history of the cultural Cold War in Asia. Taken together, the volume's fifteen chapters examine film cultures and industries in Asia to showcase the magnitude and depth of the Cold War's impact on Asian cinemas, societies, and politics. By shifting the lens to Asia, the contributors to this volume re-examine the dominant narratives about the global Cold War and highlight the complex and unique ways in which Asian societies negotiated, contested, and adapted to the politics and cultural manifestations of the Cold War.

HISTORY / Asia / Korea. --- Cinema and Cold War, Cultural Cold War, Film History, Cinema and Politics, Psychological War, Southeast Asian Cinema, East Asian Cinema, South Asian Cinema.

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World War, 1939-1945 --- Motion pictures --- War films --- Motion pictures and the war --- History --- History and criticism --- History. --- History and criticism. --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- Cinéma --- Films de guerre --- Film catalogs --- Cinéma et guerre --- Filmographie --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- Cinéma --- Cinéma et guerre --- World War, 1939-1945 - Motion pictures and the war - Film catalogs --- Motion pictures - United States - History --- War films - United States - History and criticism

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The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960's until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) 'national' memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its 'remembrance' in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.

World War, 1914-1918 --- Literature, Modern --- Collective memory and literature. --- War films --- Collective memory and motion pictures. --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures and the war. --- Motion pictures and collective memory --- Literature and collective memory --- Motion pictures --- Literature --- War films History and criticism --- History and criticism --- World War, 1914-1918 - Literature and the war --- Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism --- Collective memory and literature --- World War, 1914-1918 - Motion pictures and the war --- War films - History and criticism --- Collective memory and motion pictures --- World War I. --- cultural memory. --- war film. --- war literature.

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Who decides how, when, and where Americans fall in love and get married? Virginia Wexman's acute observations about movie stars and acting techniques show that Hollywood has often had the most powerful voice in demonstrating socially sanctioned ways of becoming a couple. Until now serious film critics have paid little attention to the impact of performance styles on American romance, and have often treated "patriarchy," "sexuality," and the "couple" as monolithic and unproblematic concepts. Wexman, however, shows how these notions have been periodically transformed in close association with the appearance, behavior, and persona of the stars of films such as The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Way Down East, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Sunset Boulevard, On the Waterfront, Nashville, House of Games, and Do the Right Thing. The author focuses first on the way in which traditional marriage norms relate to authorship (the Griffith-Gish collaboration) and genre (John Wayne and the Western). Looking at male and female stardom in terms of the development of "companionate marriage," she discusses the love goddess and the impact of method acting on Hollywood's ideals of maleness. Finally she considers the recent breakdown of the ideal of monogamous marriage in relation to Hollywood's experimentation with self-reflexive acting styles. Creating the Couple is must reading for film scholars and enthusiasts, and it will fascinate everyone interested in the changing relationships of men and women in modern culture.

Love in motion pictures. --- Marriage in motion pictures. --- Motion picture acting. --- Motion pictures --- Social aspects --- Acting. --- Actor. --- Affective memory. --- Anglo. --- Broken Blossoms. --- Chapter 1 (House of Cards). --- Chapter Two (play). --- Character (arts). --- Christian Dior. --- Cinema of the United States. --- Classical Hollywood cinema. --- Close-up. --- Colonization. --- Consideration. --- Courtship. --- D. W. Griffith. --- Division of labour. --- Do the Right Thing. --- Elia Kazan. --- Endogamy. --- Eroticism. --- Exogamy. --- Fan magazine. --- Femininity. --- Film noir. --- Filmmaking. --- Gary Cooper. --- Gender role. --- Genre. --- Hegemony. --- Hermann Broch. --- Hollywood Star. --- Homoeroticism. --- Homosexuality. --- House of Games. --- Ideology. --- Improvisation. --- Incest. --- Individualism. --- Individuation. --- Ingrid Bergman. --- Lauren Bacall. --- Libido. --- Lifestyle (sociology). --- Male bonding. --- Margaret Herrick Library. --- Marlon Brando. --- Marsha Norman. --- Masculinity. --- Mean Streets. --- Melodrama. --- Method acting. --- Mexicans. --- Miscegenation. --- Monogamy. --- Montgomery Clift. --- Moscow Art Theatre. --- My Darling Clementine. --- Narcissism. --- Narrative. --- Nobility. --- On the Waterfront. --- Oppression. --- Orphans of the Storm. --- Patriarchy. --- Person. --- Personhood. --- Philosophy. --- Playwright. --- Post-structuralism. --- Potentiality and actuality. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Public figure. --- Publicity. --- Richard Dyer. --- Role-playing. --- Romantic hero. --- Royal intermarriage. --- Sam Spade. --- Satire. --- Self-actualization. --- Separate spheres. --- Sex differences in humans. --- Sexual desire. --- Struggle (TV series). --- Suggestion. --- Sunset Boulevard (musical). --- Superiority (short story). --- Tall in the Saddle. --- Terminology. --- The Big Sleep. --- The Maltese Falcon (novel). --- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. --- The Mothering Heart. --- The Other Hand. --- War film. --- Way Down East. --- Western (genre). --- White's. --- Writing.